I don't really have choices in the material I get. So I have to make the choices in the way I play the characters.
In Manhattan, I often do two or three or more shows a night, so I'm always working on new material.
I began to see that the short texts I was writing were poster material.
Working as a musician, I have to constantly generate new material, so school keeps me sharp. Reading and writing all the time helps me to be a better songwriter.
Money buys the most experienced teachers, less-crowded classrooms, high-quality teaching materials, and after-school programs.
I mean, we are tribal by nature, and sometimes success and material wealth can divide and separate - it's not a new philosophy I'm sharing - more than hardship, hardship tends to unify.
Enchanted partnership begins with the conscious understanding, on the part of two people, that the purpose of their relationship is not so much material as spiritual, and the internal skills demanded by it are prodigious.
The sad truth for American actors is that they really have no control whatsoever over the material that they get, or can do, particularly actresses. And if you're over 40 and you're an actress, forget it.
The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.
I feel like a lot of the fundamental material, I've assimilated. So now the question is: Am I going to really get into my spiritual inheritance of music and really develop my abilities?
The technology used to detect if vehicles are carrying radioactive material is so sensitive it can tell if a person recently received radiation as part of a medical procedure.
There are two trilogies I admire: Robertson Davies's 'The Deptford Trilogy' and Philip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials.'
I think it's outrageous if a historian has a 'leading thought' because it means they will select their material according to their thesis.
As far as the world was concerned, from 1979 to 1996, I didn't publish any original material; it just wasn't there.
Your shyness alone will bring you more emotional and material losses than all of your other negative attributes.
There are very few record companies who will entertain a middle-aged woman coming to them with original material.
One has a sort of spiritual obligation to go back to the source material of the literature, to make contact with one of the seminal plays of the modern theater.
What I learned from doing 'The Graduate' was it doesn't matter what the medium is... as long as the material is inspiring and the characters are well written.
As politics is disconnected from its ethical and material moorings, it becomes easier to punish and imprison young people than to educate them.
One of the challenges Christians confront is how the politics we helped create has made it difficult to sustain the material practices constitutive of an ecclesial culture to produce Christians.
Prereading is a game changer. It changed my life...Everyone is smarter when they have seen the material before. You will be too.
